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my dear friend, jim glaspie who was the co-author of the book with me decided to trace down to the faa and went to the records of 19 different honors. about 50 years. they're in advance of the 50th anniversary. they found the airplane in minnesota by a farmer. he floats to the non-lakes. the chamber of commerce got involved and purchased it from the man. he was willing to sell it because he realized it is important by that time. so they went there in a u-haul truck, brought it back and had two years restoring to its original condition. it's been in the storage room for years without a home. before he was select good is that i'm going to find a home and eventually it was arranged to be put here in city hall. my husband and i decided to let the city used the car. we found that carly refueling car. it's about 1500 quick starts and stops was totally worn out. eventually my husband and i found another part of the same model and restart it back to the same color and have owned it indefinitely to the city. >> what do you think would've happened to the city of yuma if the pilot had gotten in t
my dear friend, jim glaspie who was the co-author of the book with me decided to trace down to the faa and went to the records of 19 different honors. about 50 years. they're in advance of the 50th anniversary. they found the airplane in minnesota by a farmer. he floats to the non-lakes. the chamber of commerce got involved and purchased it from the man. he was willing to sell it because he realized it is important by that time. so they went there in a u-haul truck, brought it back and had two...
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this is big jim. and big jim goes out to hawaii to break up a communist spy ring. that is mostly made up of doctors in hawaii. and in the end what he does is he finds where these guys are having their meeting and rushes into the meeting and quite literally beats the communist out using his fists in a big fight, and then what transpires is he follows the story out and says they went back, testified to the committee, and they got off, okay? and he starts to say something along the lines of, maybe the constitution isn't all that great. maybe these congressional committees aren't the right thing to do. maybe we should just bare knuckle it with communism. have a few more fistfights and less congressional committees investigating and it's that gruff-macho style that wayne personifies greatly and mccarthy exemplifies -- that richard nixon tries to take up and make part of his own view of the colored war. -- the cold war. when the first scandal breaks and nixon is getting money from these wealthy businessmen to fund his campaign, richard nixon says, it's a communist plot.
this is big jim. and big jim goes out to hawaii to break up a communist spy ring. that is mostly made up of doctors in hawaii. and in the end what he does is he finds where these guys are having their meeting and rushes into the meeting and quite literally beats the communist out using his fists in a big fight, and then what transpires is he follows the story out and says they went back, testified to the committee, and they got off, okay? and he starts to say something along the lines of, maybe...
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[laughter] jim dean, yeah. i could easily decouple baseball from the civil rights movement. i was not to observe the office habits of jim crow or my job was to blow the ball by any son of a who carried a louisville slugger into the batter's box. like the players in this book, i was singular in purpose. have a good season and get called up to the show. i played against some of the players written about in this book, including blue moon odom. and now almost four years removed from the game, but instinctively and emotionally, once you've lived in the land of baseball, you are a permanent resident. as a player in the southern league i never took notes or record my thoughts into a tape recorder. i would've been laughed out of the locker room. but over the years a few distinct memories have stuck stubbornly in my mind. details of specific games are long gone are the memories i do carry, however, were the ones from which this book would emerge from ford decades later, and each one of those memories had to do with race. perhaps my most vivid memory of my season and the suddenly spri
[laughter] jim dean, yeah. i could easily decouple baseball from the civil rights movement. i was not to observe the office habits of jim crow or my job was to blow the ball by any son of a who carried a louisville slugger into the batter's box. like the players in this book, i was singular in purpose. have a good season and get called up to the show. i played against some of the players written about in this book, including blue moon odom. and now almost four years removed from the game, but...
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he is working for the house un-american activities committee, big jim and big jim goes out to hawaii to break up a communist spy ring mostly made up of doctors in hawaii. in and what he does is defined for these guys are having their meeting and rushes into the meeting and quite literally beats the communists up using his fists, a big fight. whited in spires is he follows the story out and he says they went back and they -- and i got off. he starts to say something along the lines of you know maybe the constitution isn't all that great. maybe the congressional committees aren't the best thing to do. maybe we should bare knuckle it with the communist. maybe we need to have few less congressional committees investigating and is that style of -- dewayne personifies and mccarthy exemplifies in numerous ways. richard nixon tries to take up and make a part of his own view of the cold war. and in fact when the first scandal breaks that richard nixon is getting money and wealthy businessmen, to fund his campaign, one of the first thing's richard nixon does is hit the communist bloc. these ar
he is working for the house un-american activities committee, big jim and big jim goes out to hawaii to break up a communist spy ring mostly made up of doctors in hawaii. in and what he does is defined for these guys are having their meeting and rushes into the meeting and quite literally beats the communists up using his fists, a big fight. whited in spires is he follows the story out and he says they went back and they -- and i got off. he starts to say something along the lines of you know...
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jim and laura make that possible. most importantly if there's any humility here, i am going to think of dr. king here in birmingham, in a mass meeting and i'm paraphrasing and taking liberties that that was his creative use of language in keeping with him, that i have only written about his disease -- history. the people of birmingham made history. in rising to 50 years ago, they, i really should for some of the people in the room, you didn't only make history in birmingham but helps make the nation and do. i will come back to that because that ultimately is the meaning of the 50th year and we don't want to give in to some notion that that history was easy. we can be proud and america but we don't honor whatever the values of the constitution and declaration are by pretending that was a time of not freedom in order to congratulate ourselves that we have gotten to the promised land. i should add part of the other -- i will lead quickly, in my other work on king i spent time with foot soldiers. we know the famous people
jim and laura make that possible. most importantly if there's any humility here, i am going to think of dr. king here in birmingham, in a mass meeting and i'm paraphrasing and taking liberties that that was his creative use of language in keeping with him, that i have only written about his disease -- history. the people of birmingham made history. in rising to 50 years ago, they, i really should for some of the people in the room, you didn't only make history in birmingham but helps make the...
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this month we'll be discussing micialt alexander "the new jim crow" post your thoughts about the weak on twitter with a #an write our facebook page. then on tuesday, march 26, at 9:00 p.m. eastern join our live moderated discussion on twitter #b tv book club. send your discussions via twitter, facebook, or e-mail booktv@c-span.org. >> i have never seen in any report in the u.s. or main news has been the story of these people that live with a constant sirens that go off every time a rocket is close by, and they have fifteen stoakdz get to a bomb shelter. i went to visit elderly people. they were some of the founders of the can boots. say that were all all probably 65 plus, many of them were in the 70s. they hadn't slept through the night in 2009 and during the operation. but in the months proceeding that and part behalf triggered it was the constant bombardment. people hear about this in a way that is backwards. they hear that israel has made strategic strike on a particular person or a particular target, and that was responded to with rockets. that's the way it's recorded most of the
this month we'll be discussing micialt alexander "the new jim crow" post your thoughts about the weak on twitter with a #an write our facebook page. then on tuesday, march 26, at 9:00 p.m. eastern join our live moderated discussion on twitter #b tv book club. send your discussions via twitter, facebook, or e-mail booktv@c-span.org. >> i have never seen in any report in the u.s. or main news has been the story of these people that live with a constant sirens that go off every...
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and then my dear friend jim gillespie who was the co-author of the book with me, "the longest flight," he and another man decided the try and trace it down through the faa. and they went through the records of 19 different owners during all those years, about 50 years. they were in advance of the 50th anniversary of the flight. they found the airplane in minnesota owned by a farmer. he had floats on it for it to land on lakes, you know? and the chamber of commerce got involved and purchased it from the man. he was willing to sell it because he realized, you know, it's important by that time. so they went there in a u-haul truck, brought it back and spent about two years restoring it back to its original condition, payment job and everything. it's been -- paint job and everything. it's been in a storage room without a good home, and mayor courier said before he was elected, he said if i'm elected, i'm going to find a home for that airplane, and eventually it was arranged to be put here in city hall. and then my husband and i decided to let the city use the car. we found the car like th
and then my dear friend jim gillespie who was the co-author of the book with me, "the longest flight," he and another man decided the try and trace it down through the faa. and they went through the records of 19 different owners during all those years, about 50 years. they were in advance of the 50th anniversary of the flight. they found the airplane in minnesota owned by a farmer. he had floats on it for it to land on lakes, you know? and the chamber of commerce got involved and...
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. >> i was just going to say just picking up from what jim was just talking about, i often hear people say, well, what's the army doing? what are the marines doing about, you know, bringing these people home? and i think, again, there's a fundamental misunderstanding. military medicine as well as military psychotherapy, they are like the trainers on the professional football team. they're not there to heal people. you have a fundamental conflict of interest. their job is to get them back into the fight. that's the job of military medicine. it's up to the civilians to do the healing. it's a very big difference. to expect the military to do the healing is laying a big conflict of interest right at their feet. i mean, you know, if you're going to heal somebody from posttraumatic stress, that's going to take a long time, and they're probably not going to, you know, want to be going back again. and they want 'em back into service. and that's not wrong. that's why they're there. so i always remember i was at quantico and talking to the marines down there -- they have six programs that they'r
. >> i was just going to say just picking up from what jim was just talking about, i often hear people say, well, what's the army doing? what are the marines doing about, you know, bringing these people home? and i think, again, there's a fundamental misunderstanding. military medicine as well as military psychotherapy, they are like the trainers on the professional football team. they're not there to heal people. you have a fundamental conflict of interest. their job is to get them back...
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. >> host: jim in maryland, you are on booktv on c-span2 with ben shapiro. >> appreciate it. the thing i wish you would address is the hypocrisy icy with types like obama, for instance, admitted drug use and so on and they maintain policies that are locking people up. i see this from all the higher ups, clinton was involved in a lot of this stuff. in the book no one left alive, can't think of the scene, that he was basically a rapist and so on. what it seems to me is these higher ups get away with crimes that if normal person did would be locked right up and yet they are not held accountable. it goes all the way back to vietnam and everything else. johnson was never held accountable to the gulf of tonkin incident. the other thing, if you ever heard of a book called reading obama, harvard professor, this is a very positive spin. i have read it but the reviews claimed that. >> host: thanks for calling in. >> guest: i don't know that book. as far as the other question about various politicians getting away with crimes that they themselves condemned i am never a big fan of the hy
. >> host: jim in maryland, you are on booktv on c-span2 with ben shapiro. >> appreciate it. the thing i wish you would address is the hypocrisy icy with types like obama, for instance, admitted drug use and so on and they maintain policies that are locking people up. i see this from all the higher ups, clinton was involved in a lot of this stuff. in the book no one left alive, can't think of the scene, that he was basically a rapist and so on. what it seems to me is these higher...
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jim,0 interests have been profiting. if you turn the clock back to the 80s, there's some people who have argued -- and i haven't seen come -- compelling evidence -- the cia encouraged cultivation to help fund the resistance. we do know that poppy funds back then were used to help fight the soviets. and like with the overall growth of the antisoviet jihad, some of then was helpful a generation ago comes back to bite the afghan people and u.s. interests in the current environment. >> i'd like to know a little bit about president obama's feelings towards the military? has it evolved? what was his relationship earlier and what is it now? >> guest: that's a great question. and i think the president's relationship with the military operates on two different levels. there's sort of the -- the relationship with the southeastern-most commanders and the relationship with the grunts, the men and women really doing the fighting. i'll take the latter one first. the president and the vice president and their spouses have a real genuin
jim,0 interests have been profiting. if you turn the clock back to the 80s, there's some people who have argued -- and i haven't seen come -- compelling evidence -- the cia encouraged cultivation to help fund the resistance. we do know that poppy funds back then were used to help fight the soviets. and like with the overall growth of the antisoviet jihad, some of then was helpful a generation ago comes back to bite the afghan people and u.s. interests in the current environment. >> i'd...
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and then i talked to the three former presidents, gerry ford, jim carter and george bush, and i talked to daughters-in-dew, lady bird johnson, nancy reagan, and grandchildren, margaret truman and john eisenhower, both of whom, of course, are writers themselves, and they view their grandmothers very well. so they were wonderful help. then i talked to the other siblings. richard nixon's very much younger brother edward nixon, who most people don't even know he has a still that was still arrive. he was very helpful. teddy kennedy, eunice shriver. i talked to people who were part of the families, and they gave me insights and anecdotes that don't necessarily appear anywhere else. >> have you met any of the mothers? >> yes. i met and interviewed rose kennedy. mrs. carter, oh, yes, i interviewed lillian carter, she's memorable. and i was around a bit with virginia clinton kelley, but i didn't interview her, but i was very much around when she was there. so those i did really get to watch and talk to and got a feel of their personalities. >> how many of these 11 women have a book written abou
and then i talked to the three former presidents, gerry ford, jim carter and george bush, and i talked to daughters-in-dew, lady bird johnson, nancy reagan, and grandchildren, margaret truman and john eisenhower, both of whom, of course, are writers themselves, and they view their grandmothers very well. so they were wonderful help. then i talked to the other siblings. richard nixon's very much younger brother edward nixon, who most people don't even know he has a still that was still arrive....
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jim and martinez, california. we have a minute left. >> caller: can you hear me? >> host: we are listening. >> caller: the person before me said to be much but i was leading two. i was saying in my mind, people who are 50,000 to perhaps 200,000, 300,000 have warned common with each other as opposed to just being a democrat or republican. it's like whether you like the 40 niners are readers than one side or the other. but in reality, if you take away -- in fact, further than the parliamentary say no party system. this people are elect did for their ideas and then the chambers, congress and senate are set up with different way for these 500, 600, whatever people come up with a different order, how they go about, you know, making roles are deciding things. that's my idea. thank you. >> guest: that's a tough thing to do. george washington did not parties. i would say they have some benefit and provide a lot of information and a lot of organizational power. this gets back to your call in the one before that the current parties are just a compilation of interest. what i
jim and martinez, california. we have a minute left. >> caller: can you hear me? >> host: we are listening. >> caller: the person before me said to be much but i was leading two. i was saying in my mind, people who are 50,000 to perhaps 200,000, 300,000 have warned common with each other as opposed to just being a democrat or republican. it's like whether you like the 40 niners are readers than one side or the other. but in reality, if you take away -- in fact, further than...
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hi, jim. >> caller: good afternoon, gentlemen. i have a question. the la proider of servicee of to the war department in afghanistan, and i asked how the afghans were going, and i quoted him in the remark right now saying that it's basically a total failure. he went into details about that aspect of what basic means. what do you think the result is basically in afghanistan? >> well, it's obviously a question on a lot of people's mind. i see the obama administration says by next summer they draw troops down. i think that, you know, there's no dispute, you know, optimistic assessments, you know, years ago of what could be possible in afghanistan of stability and peace and strong central government, i mean, that's not going to be the case, and i think most people admit that. the question is whether a year from now there's security forces built up to the exend that when the united states leaves, you know, what will be the strength of the taliban? what will be the strength of -- what will be the strength of the government of karzai? there's divisions in
hi, jim. >> caller: good afternoon, gentlemen. i have a question. the la proider of servicee of to the war department in afghanistan, and i asked how the afghans were going, and i quoted him in the remark right now saying that it's basically a total failure. he went into details about that aspect of what basic means. what do you think the result is basically in afghanistan? >> well, it's obviously a question on a lot of people's mind. i see the obama administration says by next...
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candidates and the debat began with jim lehr asking him a question. i think he said, president obama, you won the coin toss. you have the two minutes, followed by mitt my, you have two minutes. we stopped the videotape and we said, -- joel stein, you have two minutes, and that was on the economy -- to answer the questions. rocky anderson, you have two minutes to answer this questions. back to my colleague, jim lehr with the next question, and we of course doubled the time of the debate because we were adding two people, and we had them respond to every one of these same questions. that is what expanding the debate sounds like. that is what it looks like. and we did that in denver, and we did it with the other debates as well. and the differences you heard -- it really made you ask questions about the two party system, and how much they agree and how much they disagree. i sometimes think it's not partisan gridlock that is the problem in washington. it's the bipartisan consensus. >> host: we have been talking with author and journalist amy goodman. her
candidates and the debat began with jim lehr asking him a question. i think he said, president obama, you won the coin toss. you have the two minutes, followed by mitt my, you have two minutes. we stopped the videotape and we said, -- joel stein, you have two minutes, and that was on the economy -- to answer the questions. rocky anderson, you have two minutes to answer this questions. back to my colleague, jim lehr with the next question, and we of course doubled the time of the debate because...
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i will say that was one of my favorite reviews because i love jim. the water is pretty good but the gym part is really nice. so what i would like to do, arlene suggested and i thought it was a good idea to spend 30 minutes talking about the book. everybody can hear me okay? talking about the book and i will condense it for you and give me the main points and give you a general feeling. i will read a page or so at the end of the 30 minutes to get a sense of the writing and then i will throw it open for any questions or comments. i have organized it -- first when i'm going to do is talk a little bit about myself. that is the doctor part and the unusual hospital where he practiced medicine as you heard for 20 years in san francisco. that's the hospital part and last i will tell you a little about the pilgrimage i took across europe as well obviously is the pilgrimage that is in fact the book. so first let me say that i never thought of myself as a natural. her, and natural-born doctor and by that i mean growing up i never watched doctor shows on televis
i will say that was one of my favorite reviews because i love jim. the water is pretty good but the gym part is really nice. so what i would like to do, arlene suggested and i thought it was a good idea to spend 30 minutes talking about the book. everybody can hear me okay? talking about the book and i will condense it for you and give me the main points and give you a general feeling. i will read a page or so at the end of the 30 minutes to get a sense of the writing and then i will throw it...